Yes, price per BA doubled, money per fight doubled. But I get 1/2 the BA as before. I can buy 1/2 the BA as before which is two times the price.

It should be a wash. No?

My BA cost before the change was about 540-555 per. I forget the exact amount. If Sut knows and can reply that would be great for an exact number. He and I had almost identical MPR when he Jon made this change.

From a bot's point of view, it all comes down to a certain success percentage per botcheck, which should be high enough to be worth the fine/missed BA.

For example, if the bot gets a botcheck once every 30 BA, and (double) fails half of them, he would be suspended on average 1 hour each hour if he's on a 10/10 BA rate. If the suspend time were the same hour on the new system, then that same bot would be suspended on average 1 hour every 2 hours if on a 10/20 BA rate. Which means a bot becomes a more interesting option...

To fix this, either the botcheck rate would have to be doubled (I can imagine lot's of cheering for that idea) or the suspend time/fine would need to be doubled. I guess Jon picked the second option ;)

I'm too busy at work to fight right now so I threw myself on my sword:

"Your privilege to fight was suspended for 60 minutes starting at 8:42 AM EDT. Current server time is Tue May 8 08:42:37 2007.
You may fight again when that time has elapsed, or you may continue immediately after paying a fine of $73,531. Click here to pay $73,531 and continue fighting. "

"Your privilege to fight was suspended for 60 minutes starting at 8:42 AM EDT. Current server time is Tue May 8 09:43:11 2007.
You may fight again when that time has elapsed, or you may continue immediately after paying a fine of $0. Click here to pay $0 and continue fighting."

It is 60 minutes, I have had unintentional bot-check failures due to outages at work (nothing worse than seeing the broken-image-link graphic right at the moment a check appears)...I have been able to play within 60 minutes.

I completely agree with Ranger on the price being doubly high. After the BA change, I also remarked how it would be nice for bot-check frequency to be lesser, but apparently that is not going to change... Just had five bot checks on the front end of an Adam heat-up...that's 5/22. Then again, I think last night I got a full MCM cycle in without a single check... Randomization is king here!

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